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Masonic Reminiscences.
MASONIC REMINISCENCES .
" Men are but children of a larger growth . "
JEHROLD AND STANSFIELD .
SOME eighteen years since , two heedless boys , yclept "Middies , " on board the Namur , one of the old 1 st of June timbers , practised , as may be readily believed , all the freaks and follies for which the cockpit was once so renowned . JERHOLD , albeit not even yet of Herculean frame , had then even less than the appearance of a stripling , but the "blood of Douglas" would protect itself in the contentions of boyhood ; and it would seem that the son of an actor could as a patronymicwhat
usurp , , as author he has since become entitled to claim in dramatic right . In the cock pit , the Middy Jerrold would " strut his hour on the stage , " and aspired to the important character of the " Robber , " in the Iron Chest . STANSFIELD was scene painter to the company , principal decorator , and master of the ceremonies to the gentlemen and the ladies who might be selected from such as at the period we describe , were in the habit of visiting a man-of-war .
STANSFIELD now ranks the very first in that branch of that profession which he may be truly said to have created , ; while JERROLD takes the lead as a dramatist , and , naturally enough , in nautical dramas , makes the sea talk . Pause , reader , and think .
Grand Conclave of Emergency of Masonic Knights Templars of Saint John of Jerusalem , Free Masons' Tavern , Great Queen Street , Lincoln ' s Inn Fields , His Royal Hi g hness Prince Edward DUKE of K ENT , Royal Grand Patron . Tuesday , May 5 , 1812 . THE Grand Conclave was convened in clue form , and the Minutes of the last Grand Conclave were read and confirmed , except the appointment of Superintendents , which was further postponed .
PRESENT : W . R . Wright .... M . E . Grand Master J . C . Burckhardt . . . D . Grand Master Rev . John Frith .... Grand Prelate Malcolm Gillies .... First Grand Captain Henry Woodthorpe , jun . . Second Grand Captain William Henry . White . Grand Chancellor
Rev . John Austin . . . Grand Orator andKeeperof the Archives Robert Gill ...... G . V . Chancellor and Registrar George Fallowdown . . Grand Treasurer pro tem . and Grand Almoner Benjamin Plummer . . Superintendent for the Principality of rr 3 , 1 GS T . W . H . Woodthorpe . First Grand Expert Samuel Newman . . . First Standard Bearer pro tem . and G . Chamberlain Andrew Dennis O'Kelly . Second Standard Bearer pro tem .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Masonic Reminiscences.
MASONIC REMINISCENCES .
" Men are but children of a larger growth . "
JEHROLD AND STANSFIELD .
SOME eighteen years since , two heedless boys , yclept "Middies , " on board the Namur , one of the old 1 st of June timbers , practised , as may be readily believed , all the freaks and follies for which the cockpit was once so renowned . JERHOLD , albeit not even yet of Herculean frame , had then even less than the appearance of a stripling , but the "blood of Douglas" would protect itself in the contentions of boyhood ; and it would seem that the son of an actor could as a patronymicwhat
usurp , , as author he has since become entitled to claim in dramatic right . In the cock pit , the Middy Jerrold would " strut his hour on the stage , " and aspired to the important character of the " Robber , " in the Iron Chest . STANSFIELD was scene painter to the company , principal decorator , and master of the ceremonies to the gentlemen and the ladies who might be selected from such as at the period we describe , were in the habit of visiting a man-of-war .
STANSFIELD now ranks the very first in that branch of that profession which he may be truly said to have created , ; while JERROLD takes the lead as a dramatist , and , naturally enough , in nautical dramas , makes the sea talk . Pause , reader , and think .
Grand Conclave of Emergency of Masonic Knights Templars of Saint John of Jerusalem , Free Masons' Tavern , Great Queen Street , Lincoln ' s Inn Fields , His Royal Hi g hness Prince Edward DUKE of K ENT , Royal Grand Patron . Tuesday , May 5 , 1812 . THE Grand Conclave was convened in clue form , and the Minutes of the last Grand Conclave were read and confirmed , except the appointment of Superintendents , which was further postponed .
PRESENT : W . R . Wright .... M . E . Grand Master J . C . Burckhardt . . . D . Grand Master Rev . John Frith .... Grand Prelate Malcolm Gillies .... First Grand Captain Henry Woodthorpe , jun . . Second Grand Captain William Henry . White . Grand Chancellor
Rev . John Austin . . . Grand Orator andKeeperof the Archives Robert Gill ...... G . V . Chancellor and Registrar George Fallowdown . . Grand Treasurer pro tem . and Grand Almoner Benjamin Plummer . . Superintendent for the Principality of rr 3 , 1 GS T . W . H . Woodthorpe . First Grand Expert Samuel Newman . . . First Standard Bearer pro tem . and G . Chamberlain Andrew Dennis O'Kelly . Second Standard Bearer pro tem .